My uncle was in the Army back in the 60s stationed in Alaska. Someone made a wisecrack about the Canadian Army, and he spent about a half hour talking about how he'd crossed paths with some guys from their army, and basically said that they were a tough and nasty bunch that he wouldn't have dared fark around with.

I thought it was an interesting story. Of course, I heard it 20 years ago and that uncle is dead now, so my memory of the complete story was drank away a long time ago.

After a couple of thousand dead and injured helping an ally, that type of comment wears a bit thin up here.

Oh lighten up.

If you'll recall the record is Canada:1 US:0

Also the national sport of Canada is strapping knives to your feet and beating the hell out of each other. If you're really lucky, they let you get hit by 90mph lumps of frozen rubber for a whole hour. Also, pretty sure you have to half bear to survive north of about Calgary for very long. That's worldwide and includes Russia and Finland. Of course Canada has a military. And no, the Pope doesn't shiat in the woods... often.

My uncle was in the Army back in the 60s stationed in Alaska. Someone made a wisecrack about the Canadian Army, and he spent about a half hour talking about how he'd crossed paths with some guys from their army, and basically said that they were a tough and nasty bunch that he wouldn't have dared fark around with.

I thought it was an interesting story. Of course, I heard it 20 years ago and that uncle is dead now, so my memory of the complete story was drank away a long time ago.

I've been informed on many occasions that Canada has an odd mixture of excellent soldiers with world class training and skills who are using shiat equipment. I really don't know but the history of our military and our recent performance seems to back that assertion up.

It was 9 soldiers. From the headline, I was picturing a regiment or two packing up their BPM's and loading onto LCAC's, then zooming past Sara Palin's house on the way home, tossing out empty vodka bottles and maple syrup jugs.

Egoy3k:BrotherJew: doglover: All of Canada's soldier is on high alert.

My uncle was in the Army back in the 60s stationed in Alaska. Someone made a wisecrack about the Canadian Army, and he spent about a half hour talking about how he'd crossed paths with some guys from their army, and basically said that they were a tough and nasty bunch that he wouldn't have dared fark around with.

I thought it was an interesting story. Of course, I heard it 20 years ago and that uncle is dead now, so my memory of the complete story was drank away a long time ago.

I've been informed on many occasions that Canada has an odd mixture of excellent soldiers with world class training and skills who are using shiat equipment. I really don't know but the history of our military and our recent performance seems to back that assertion up.

You're not wrong. Canadians cross train with the US military all the time. They basically stick to our standards in terms of individual readiness, and say what you will but their is no military in the world that is as well trained as the US military. So yes, Canadian forces are professionally trained, but they don't have any where near the funding as the US. Which to be fair isn't a fair comparison really, no country spends as much on the military as America.

/served with a number of other nations//Canadians are cool guys, same with brits but I wouldn't trust a Jordanian to go to the bathroom without a negligent discharge.

MrBallou:It was 9 soldiers. From the headline, I was picturing a regiment or two packing up their BPM's and loading onto LCAC's, then zooming past Sara Palin's house on the way home, tossing out empty vodka bottles and maple syrup jugs.

I picture them stopping at her house to let one take a piss on her mailbox

??? looks like they could be killed with a gas I could mix with the shiat under my kitchen sink, nothing complicated, just mix windex and bleach in just about any proportions you like, and all the bearded guys are farked.